One of my all time favorite TV moments happened when John Lydon and Keith Levene were guests on the old Tomorrow show with Tom Snyder. Lydon and Levene were totally disrespectful to Snyder, dissing his show and him. Snyder was really pissed off. I remember Howard Stern was interviewed by him a decade later and brought out the same anger in Snyder by his antics.by John Brown
I saw The Buzzcocks on Craig Ferguson's show. It seemed a little weird because the last time I noticed them they were young guys making kick ass music. It seemed weird because they look old. I'm dating myself, so I'm no kid either. I remember listening to A Different Kind of Tension when it was a new album in 1979, as well as the earlier stuff, even Spiral Scratch. I also remeby John Brown
All the great bands mentioned here, that will never be considered for nomination, points out that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a big joke. Someone mentions that Bon Jovi will be inducted in a few years. I agree with that prediction. When he gets in, and the Pistols are ignored, there is no way to take that stupid thing seriously.by John Brown
Have The Undertones done a reunion tour? I saw them at The Bayou in Washington, D.C. in 1980, when they were promoting "Hypnotized." They were really gret live, with energretic performances and showing a great sense of humor between songs. Is anybody going to see the Stones this Fall, another tour with only three original members? I still wonder whatever got into Bill Wyman to makeby John Brown
Don't tell anybody, but I went to Ozzfest last week and enjoyed it.by John Brown
I saw a tape of it years later. It was a big deal in the news at the time.by John Brown
The only time I ever saw someone truly reject an award was when Marlon Brando sent a native American woman to reject his Oscar for "The Godfather," for political reasons, relating to the U.S. government's historic bad treatment of native American people. Post Edited (07-28-05 08:52)by John Brown
You make a good point about "trading one "'douchebag showoff thing"' for another" if it accomplishes nothing more than a weird, awkward moment. On the other hand, doesn't the whole entertainment industry need some kind of kamikaze act by an artist to kick it in the ass? Music, film and TV seems more obssessed with bullshit celebrity PR and less about the artby John Brown
Wouldn't it be great if artists rejected awards, period? Isn't it like a douchebag showoff thing to get together in a room full of business people to accept an award for selling a lot of CD's? It seems like a bunch of insurance agents congratulating each other on topping themselves on how many new policies they've sold over the previous year. Wouldn't it be great for aby John Brown
I like that idea. Roky Erickson auditioning new 13th Floor Elevators. The Dave Navaro role on that show should go to Syd Barrett.by John Brown
breno, you should go to the show just to piss that kid off.by John Brown
How will you manage to stay awake at that Springsteen concert, erickalbany?by John Brown
Thanks for the info., breno. I'll probably listen to it. It's too tempting to ignore, even if I don't end up likeing it, just because she made the effort to recreate that album in her own way.by John Brown
Has anybody heard the CD covering the entire Who album, "The Who Sell Out" by a woman named Petra? I haven't heard it, but she apparently recreates all the vocal and instrumetal parts of the original album, in the original arrangements, solely with her vocals overdubbed many times. "The Who Sell Out " is one of my favorite albums. I hope she did a good job on it.by John Brown
REM, U2 and Springsteen have all been thrashed pretty well over the past week. It seems that anybody who stays around longer than five years seems to have an inevitable decline as an artist. Older acts like the Stones have put out so, so albums for many years and still sell out stadiums. I wonder if it's the memory of their former greatness that the public is buying. Has Paul McCartney mby John Brown
I couldn't believe all the hype about "Everybody Loves Raymond" going off the air. I think I watched a grand total of five minutes of that show once and was so bored that I certainly didn't find myself loving Raymond.by John Brown
I hope he gives me some royalties if he uses it.by John Brown
I bought that album way back but pretty much think U2 blows.by John Brown
Damn, you have the bastards pegged, Paganizer.by John Brown
Ira started a Bruce Springsteen thread that started a chain reaction, thrashing the hell out of his music and entire career by several posters to this message board. I participated in it myself. Is there another artist or band deserving of a massive shitstorm of bile? Wouldn't it be a great way to show those deserving "artists" how the public really feels about them, by using thby John Brown
Maybe Springsteen ought to remember the guy he used to be before Jon Landau got a ahold of him. He made okay records, namely, his first three albums, but he didn't seem like he was trying to be an icon of anything before all the hype after "Born to Run," the simultaneous covers on Time and Newsweek, in 1975, the puffery of Landau about how Springsteen was the next great thing. Whby John Brown
"Born to Run" was his last listenable album. Punk made him irrelevant in the years after it appeared, in an artistic sense, as punk had more fire than anything Springsteen ever wrote or recorded before or since it came along. "Born in the USA" may have been his biggest commercial success. So what? It's a bore to listen to, and everything I've heard of his since tby John Brown
What I mean by "suck the air out of the concert business for other acts" is simply economics. People who go to the shows of one of the expensive acts I cited might also see other acts if the prices of their tickets weren't so high. McCartney and the Stones will likely get the lion's share of concert goers' dollars when they tour. Post Edited (06-20-05 17:14)by John Brown
A few select established artists can and do charge high ticket prices. For example, The Rolling Stones are charging over $400. for "good seats" for their Fall tour. Paul McCartney charges just above $250. for "good seats" for his upcoming tour. Both acts also offer VIP travel packages in excess of $1400. to $2500. To be fair, those travel packages incude hotel accomodationby John Brown
It would be great if all the Trouser Press magazines could be reissued in some form, perhaps in multi-volume sets of books with all the covers, articles, photos and reviews included.by John Brown
I don't care about The Hard Rock Cafe or The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Paganizer. Neither one mean anything to me. I hate putting the music I love in a box as in such boring, conventional things as those two useless would-be institutions. Post Edited (03-24-05 09:56)by John Brown
Exactly, jglauner. Worship is for dopes. Post Edited (03-24-05 00:22)by John Brown
I don't want a hall of fame at all, Paganizer. It seems stiff and boring and everything that is not rock 'n roll. Maybe I'm the only one who feels that way.by John Brown
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is bullshit. A bunch of old rockers in tuxedos, giving boring speeches filled with syrupy platitudes is hardly anything close to rocking. The greatness of the music is in the music itself, not the boring get togethers that are more appropriate for sales professionals congratulating each other for meeting their sales projections for the year. I hate the selectiveby John Brown
No. Is it good?by John Brown